Welcome!

Our Department focuses on contemporary theatre and dance as intermediate, interdisciplinary, intercultural and international. Our areas of research focus are: dance; the theory and practice of dramaturgy; community arts; the impact of technology on contemporary performance practice; questions of embodiment and corporeality; and the relationships between the performing arts and the visual culture.
This website describes our Departmental activities. It also reflects our evolving understanding of contemporary practice as one of hybrid projects that both respect and erase the borders of and between theatre, dance, visual arts, music, media and daily life.

Who is where?

13 September Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink is in Amsterdam, with Platform-Scenography. P-S participates in A Slice of Scenography at TF Theaterfestival, as curator of the Expanded Scenography programme (7-17 September). Wednesday September 13th, Liesbeth presents an Open Atelier session with Anne Karin ten Bosch on transition zones and border spaces in and around the City Theatre in Amsterdam.

7 October Konstantina Georgelou is at the Institute of Theatre Studies Amsterdam in the frame of the symposium ‘Dramaturgies of Cultural Translation’ (UvA), presenting her co-authored book The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance (Valiz, 2017).

12-14 October Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink is in Prague, with Platform-Scenography, at the PQ Symposium Porous Borders.

On October 13th, she will present Thinking Through Thresholds, a workshop together with Anne Karin ten Bosch.

9 November Sigrid Merx will be moderating the program ‘Revolte’ by ArtEZ Studium Generale. Together with artists and scholars the audience will investigate today’s desire to radically change the world. What are the conditions for a successful revolution, what tools do we have and what has art to offer in all this?